ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 55 
American Indian life, particularly a study of aboriginal 
trails and trade routes. 
The work of collecting stories dealing with the old clan 
divisions of the Chickasaw Indians, undertaken by a 
Chickasaw at Doctor Swanton’s suggestion, has met with 
gratifying success, 10 or 12 such stories having already been 
sent in. 
During the fiscal year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, 
was engaged entirely in office work. 
In his report for the fiscal year 1921 it was stated that a 
number of Chippewa and Ottawa texts had been obtained 
in 1900 from Mr. John Miscogeon, an Ottawa mixed blood, 
then in Washington, D. C., and that Mr. George Gabaoosa, 
a mixed-blood Chippewa, had been employed to amend and 
to supply the Chippewa versions of these texts. He also 
amplified the texts by substantial additions. This material 
covers 125 pages. Mr. Gabaoosa’s fixed habit of writing 
his native language by means of the alphabet employed by 
the missionaries made it needful that these texts thus written 
be translated into the alphabet devised by Maj. J. W. 
Powell, founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology, for 
recording native Indian languages. This work of trans- 
literation is one of considerable difficulty, because the aid 
of a native Chippewa speaker is not available in the office 
and Mr. Hewitt does not speak Chippewa. 
In addition, Mr. Hewitt continued work in preparing the 
Muskhogean material detailed in his last report. 
Mr. Hewitt also continued his typing of the native 
Onondaga texts of the second part of the Iroquoian Cos- 
mology, the first part having appeared in the Twenty-first 
Annual Report of the bureau. There are now 255 pages of 
text material in final form. 
As custodian of manuscripts Mr. Hewitt reports that no 
new linguistic records were added to the material perma- 
nently in his charge. Collaborators and others make tem- 
porary deposits of manuscripts upon which work is being 
done, and these are not catalogued as of permanent deposit. 
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